h drive to the leade

e eastern estate, their firepower striking e

ew exactly where the d

an urgent report crackled through his earpiece, "Selena and Mira

eart

grabbed a submachine gun a

Mira's pale face as she was fo

shrieked, "You sold out the

aught, Mira had b

, "I don't know anything

bullets pouring out as enemi

s on the inside and Mira was on the

at him and cried, "Lucien, save

ut, grabbed Selena by the wris

s a core member of the family, and if

ay bullet struck Mira in the shoulder, and

s contracted s

l of pain, shock, and disbelief,

ing slammed hard in

ng tightly to his arm and shouted, "For

he tried to shake her off

n it ha

, flames shot into the sky, and the shock

ground by the blast, hi

here Mira had been standing, but all that re

forward, only to be blocked by f

hing, and her figure vanis

arrived soon after and

entire underworld kneeling in front of the ruins,

and over, his voice breaking from hoarse shouts into

given him had been fi

d, "I never

er wanted Mira dead, the only thing he had ever w

knelt beside her before the statue of Jesus and aton

ould have s

d across her face and said tearfully, "Lucien,

and the sheer force of his pain filled his

om his lips, and Lucien coll

the north side

nferno, his arm cut open and bleeding from shattere

ang on, I'm gettin

sciousness slipped away again, she looked back one last time toward

think she wa

t was for

ould never have to drag eac